Parliamentarians across the world welcomed the UK Parliament's #UyghurGenocide declaration.

#IPAC 🇺🇸 Co-Chair @SenatorMenendez:

UK MPs have "shone a light on the egregious abuses the Chinese state commits against the Uyghur people."

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theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
#IPAC 🇺🇸 Co-Chair @SenRubioPress:

“One by one, democratic nations are calling out the Chinese government persecution of the Uyghur people We cannot stand idly by while these horrific abuses continue.”

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#IPAC 🇦🇺 Co-Chair @kimbakit:

“Today’s vote in the British Parliament is a clear sign that the world is waking up to the suffering of the Uighur people.”

Full comment:
smh.com.au/world/europe/h…
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22 Apr
BREAKING: UK Parliament unanimously declares the Chinese government is committing a Genocide against Uyghurs.

The UK joins the US, Canada and the Netherlands in declaring a #UyghurGenocide.

This is the first time a genocide declaration has passed the UK Parliament unopposed.
#IPAC member and author of the motion @Nus_Ghani MP said:

“Today Parliament has spoken with one voice and called out the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal oppression of Uyghurs for what it is: a genocide... (1/2)
... The work does not stop here. We have a solemn obligation under the Genocide Convention to act to prevent further atrocities from taking place. History will not judge us kindly if we fail to do so.” (2/2)
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22 Apr
LIVE: #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani moves #UyghurGenocide motion:

“That this House believes that Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are suffering Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.”

Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0a…
#IPAC member @YasminQureshiMP calls on the government to commit to cooperate with the @TribunalUyghur as it leads an impartial legal investigation into genocide and atrocity crimes in the Xinjiang region.
#IPAC co-chair @MPIainDS: Abuses in Xinjiang meet every criteria of genocide.

"These are the definitions of genocide, and on every one of these counts we have evidence to show that genocide is taking place to the Uyghur people."
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19 Apr
BREAKING: Report finds crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.

A new report from @hrw finds the Chinese government has committed — and continues to commit — Crimes Against Humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim groups.

Key findings below [THREAD]

hrw.org/report/2021/04…
[1] Enslavement

The forced labour of Turkic Muslims arbitrarily detained in political education facilities, as well as the automatic, involuntary transfer of “graduated” detainees to adjacent factories, amounts to the crime of enslavement.
[2] Imprisonment and Other Severe Deprivation of Physical Liberty

Chinese authorities have arbitrarily imprisoned up to one million Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang in political education camps. Others are being held arbitrarily in detention facilities and prisons.
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30 Dec 20
#BREAKING Matt Pottinger, Deputy @WHNSC Advisor tells European #IPAC Co-chairs:

“Leaders in both U.S. political parties and across the U.S. government are perplexed and stunned that the EU is moving towards a new investment treaty right on the eve of a new U.S. administration.”
“There is nowhere for bureaucrats in Brussels or Europe to hide. We can no longer kid ourselves that Beijing is on the verge of honouring labour rights, while it continues to build millions of square feet of factories for forced labour in Xinjiang.”
“The EU Commission’s haste to partner with Beijing despite its grotesque human rights abuses has removed a fig leaf. Some European officials and commentators liked to claim that the Trump Administration was an impediment to even deeper transatlantic cooperation. Now it is plain
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13 Dec 20
#IPAC comment on the leaked database of the Chinese Communist Party Shanghai branch member register.
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Leaked files expose mass infiltration of UK firms by Chinese Communist Party including AstraZeneca, Rolls Royce, HSBC and Jaguar Land Rover

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
Sky News Australia: Major leak 'lifts the lid' on the Chinese Communist Party.

skynews.com.au/details/_62159…
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